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2004-11-05 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Steve White 2004-11-05 12:53:22 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sounds to me like it could have rained.

Posted by phil_b 2004-11-05 1:07:34 AM|| 2004-11-05 1:07:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 They are happy. They just found out Bush won. I would think they got "cleaned" is an OK guess but it could be an increase in solar energy as well.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-11-05 1:27:43 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-11-05 1:27:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 More likely a light, 300MPH breeze...

Posted by mojo 2004-11-05 2:24:26 AM|| 2004-11-05 2:24:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Here's a fresh picture from one of the rovers:

Posted by Dave D. 2004-11-05 6:46:16 AM|| 2004-11-05 6:46:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 *heh* I was expecting a WalMart. :)

Posted by eLarson 2004-11-05 8:14:13 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2004-11-05 8:14:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Unexplained power boost? Cleaner solar cells? I don't think so.

Any sci-fi fan knows that the rover in question has just come in contact with a mysterious energy beam from an ancient martian artifact that will turn the rover into a rampaging kill-bot. You would think NASA could figure this stuff out.

Posted by SteveS 2004-11-05 8:47:22 AM|| 2004-11-05 8:47:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Energy beam? Naaa, more likely just one of the local homeless crowd wielding a squeegee and some Windex. Hopefully NASA sent tip money along.

Posted by AzCat 2004-11-05 11:49:21 AM|| 2004-11-05 11:49:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I wonder if they've written about this on their LiveJournal blogs. Seriously. Sort of.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2004-11-05 11:52:28 AM|| 2004-11-05 11:52:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I know it was stray energy from the Zionist Death Rayâ¢

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-11-05 11:55:45 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-11-05 11:55:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 I've noticed that the sunshine is a little brighter now that Bush has been re-elected...

Posted by Tom 2004-11-05 11:58:50 AM|| 2004-11-05 11:58:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Re #9: Make that the infamous TESLA DEATH RAY! "Zionist entity" merely updated an existing idea... BTw, first used at the Mitla Pass in '56, and then again on the Golan in '67. Malfunctioning TESLA DEATH RAY equipment on the Bar-Lev Line in '73 allowed Egyptian advance to proceed unabated...its repair days later allowed General Sharon to destroy the Egyptian 3rd Army and proceed into Africa... BTW a more portable version of the TESLA DEATH RAY now standard equipment on certain late model Merkavas...

Posted by borgboy 2004-11-05 12:22:07 PM|| 2004-11-05 12:22:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Everybody already knows that Borgboy.

:)

Posted by Shipman 2004-11-05 12:33:05 PM|| 2004-11-05 12:33:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 ET has a whisk broom.

Posted by BigEd 2004-11-05 1:38:41 PM|| 2004-11-05 1:38:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Someone just wound up the rubber band again is all....

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-11-05 1:57:29 PM|| 2004-11-05 1:57:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 It was the Mysterons. Just ask Capt. Scarlet.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-11-05 2:06:16 PM|| 2004-11-05 2:06:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Swiffer?

Posted by Analog Roam 2004-11-05 4:33:07 PM|| 2004-11-05 4:33:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Naw, Marvin gave 'em a jumpstart from his Illudium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

Posted by Old Grouch 2004-11-05 7:08:40 PM|| 2004-11-05 7:08:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 "Bush Victory Will Jump-Start Space Plans" (eg Mars exploration)

immediately followed by:

"Mars Rovers Get Mystery Power Boost"

The connection is almost spooky . . .

Posted by gp 2004-11-05 8:32:35 PM|| 2004-11-05 8:32:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Martian squeegee men?

Posted by ed 2004-11-05 8:35:11 PM|| 2004-11-05 8:35:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Something WONDERFUL is about to happen..."2001 A Space Odd.."!!

Posted by smn 2004-11-05 10:03:22 PM|| 2004-11-05 10:03:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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